“I guess you’re right,” added Randy. “For all we know, the Wall Street offices may have been cleaned out completely in this hold-up.”
CHAPTER XIV
A DARING HOLD-UP
The boys continued to question Pete Apgar and at the same time packed up their belongings with all possible haste. Gif and Spouter assisted the Rover boys, knowing that their chums wanted to return to Valley Brook Farm as soon as it could be done.
“I hope this doesn’t prove as bad as you think it,” said Gif to Jack.
“So do I, Gif,” was the reply. “But you know as well as I do that there have been a number of very daring hold-ups in the city during the past few years. Why, only a few months ago I read in the papers about a Maiden Lane jewelry firm being cleaned out of a hundred thousand dollars’ worth of unset diamonds.”
“I don’t see how they could get a great deal at the offices,” put in Andy. “I know they’re very careful about the securities and keep most of the stuff in the safe or in the bank deposit boxes.”
“Well, that’s just it! Suppose they had a lot of stuff in the safe and the safe happened to be open when the hold-up men came in?”
“Oh, well, don’t cross a bridge until you come to it, fellows,” admonished Spouter. “Of course it may be bad enough, but not as bad as it might be. Perhaps by the time we get back to the farm your Uncle Randolph will have had some particulars by ’phone or telegraph.”
In fifteen minutes the Rover boys and their chums were ready to start. The wooden shutters had been placed over the windows of the lodge and the door securely locked. Then the lads took up their rolls and other equipment.